1.   Once cheered, contest winners are usually soon forgotten.

2.   Contest winners receive a cash prize.

3.   As a teen-ager she was a cheerleader and a beauty contest winner.

4.   As derisive as the terms sound, Metroplex promotional directors speak of frequent contest winners with a certain degree of affection.

5.   Barbara Oliver lifted a gold-framed mirror to her freshly made-up face and started blubbering like a beauty contest winner.

6.   -- To stimulate sweepstakes entries, commercials for Publishers Clearing House by Deutsch Inc. present the arrivals of its Prize Patrol at the homes of contest winners.

7.   Agents checked the lists of recent contest winners, and what they found confirmed much of what the early informer had told them.

8.   Contest winners got to play dead people in a horror movie.

9.   --Find past contest winners in your community and talk to them about how they did it.

10.   He walked out as a Dirty Bird dance contest winner.